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Travon Free cut his teeth as a Hollywood comedy writer drafting jokes for some of late night’s biggest names. His latest project, though, a 32-minute short starring rapper Joey Bada$$, might employ Free’s comedy voice but the subject is no laughing matter. In “Two Distant Strangers,” Free’s first Oscar contender, a Black man named Carter

Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, a cast member of MTV’s reality television show “Jersey Shore,” has been arrested on a domestic violence allegation, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. “He was arrested on April 22 at 11:50 a.m. for domestic violence, but due to victim confidentiality, I can’t go into detail,” said Officer Rosario Cervantes, a spokesperson

Khloé Kardashian on Saturday thanked President Joe Biden on social media for being the first US president to officially recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide. “Thank you for honoring the stories, the pain, suffering and loss of the Armenian people,” the reality TV star and entrepreneur of Armenian descent

The real Deborah Johnson hasn’t watched the scene in “Judas and the Black Messiah” where a cop puts a gun to her pregnant belly after a predawn raid that killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. The 70-year-old now goes by Akua Njeri. She remains a revolutionary, as well as the mother of Hampton’s namesake. She’s

Teenage models Lydia-Angel Beach and Charlotte Claussen are seated on Monastiraki Square drinking in the warm Athens sunshine, having just sated their post-casting hunger with a juicy takeout souvlaki from classic kebab joint Thanasis. London-born Beach, 18, who grew up in Ibiza, and her colleague Claussen, 19, from Hamburg, flew in a few days ago,

Every Sunday night, “90 Day Fiance” or one of its popular spinoffs takes TV viewers on a chaotic journey through romance, culture clashes and the American immigration system. Each episode of the TLC reality show starts off as a love story between an American citizen and a foreign national. Then comes skepticism, cringe comedy, eye-popping

The Smithsonian Institution announced on Friday that it will reopen seven of its museums and the National Zoo to the public next month, kicking off a phased reopening after it temporarily closed its facilities because of the pandemic. The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, will reopen on May

The 93rd Academy Awards are finally happening this Sunday and one person who will be watching is Billy Crystal. Crystal knows a thing or two about the Oscars after hosting the show nine times. “I have great faith in the producers,” Crystal told CNN in an interview on Thursday, while promoting his upcoming movie, “Here

Russell Crowe has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the Greek god Zeus. The Oscar-winner casually revealed he will star alongside Chris Hemsworth in the forthcoming “Thor: Love and Thunder” during an interview with Australian radio show JOY Breakfast with The Murphys. “I’m going to get on my bicycle and ride up to Disney-Fox studios,

Add “Shadow and Bone” to the long list of efforts to establish new fantasy series in the post-“Game of Thrones” era, in this case with a fairly generic tale of a war-riven world and a young woman who learns she has spectacular powers and an epic destiny. As constructed it makes for a moderately watchable

“D” is for documentary, and “Sesame Street” gets celebrated in two of them this month: “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street,” a deep dive into the show’s origins; and “Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days,” a fairly dutiful, star-studded ABC special. The former proves considerably more interesting, but the two complement each

Amal Clooney is doing what so many people have been doing during the pandemic — watching “ER.” But according to husband and actor George Clooney, the many dalliances of Dr. Doug Ross have been met with disapproval. “This has been a very, very disastrous thing for me because I forgot all of the terrible things